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A Q & A with Matthew J. Hernando, author of “Faces Like Devils: The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in the Ozarks”
Matthew J. Hernando is Instructor of History and Government at Ozark Technical Community College, Hollister, Missouri. He has contributed articles and book reviews to such publications as the North Louisiana Historical Association Journal, the White River Valley Historical Quarterly, and the online journal Civil War Book Review. Faces Like Devils: The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in…
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The State Historical Society of Missouri: An Afternoon of Fiction Set in the Missouri Ozarks
COLUMBIA, Missouri — July 18, 2015 2 – 4 p.m. Research Center–Columbia Join two authors with Missouri roots for readings from their latest projects, followed by a discussion on writing with topics ranging from choosing historical fiction to literary license and historical accuracy. Steve Wiegenstein will read highlights from This Old World, which was recently…
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A Springfield History of Race and Faith
FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE Contact: Missouri State University Office for Diversity and Inclusion Email: DiversityandInclusion@MissouriState.edu Telephone: 417-836-3736 A Springfield History of Race and Faith: A Reading and Panel Discussion Featuring Novelist Steve Yates With a Special Dance Performance by God’s Chosen Ministry (MSU’s Student Praise Ministry Group) 7:00-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25 In the Historic…
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How research fires writing: wills, inventories, archives, photographs, and what I learned in Howard Bahr’s Research and Writing class
The conductor went back to his paperwork, and Artemus looked past him out the window where the woods, the moss, the houses—some of them on stilts now—passed in winter array, made soft and ephemeral in a light the color of old pearls. That sublime passage is Howard Bahr from his extraordinarily beautiful novel, Pelican Road.…
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What it has meant to be one of Curiosity’s Cats: a Yowl from St. Paul
I would love to quote feline jazz philosopher/poet Thomas O’Malley here, but I know how jealously his parent company guards his lyrics and wisdom, even though I doubt that alley cat was much of a company man at heart. At a sales reps’ meeting in New York City, the last of the December meetings I…
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Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on Research coming April 15, 2014 from Minnesota Historical Society Press
Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on Research Edited by Bruce Joshua Miller “Each morning I would strike out for this temple of learning in the crisp autumn air . . . with a sense of purpose and the conviction that this was where I belonged.”—Marilyn Stasio from Your Research—or Your Life Inspired partly by Richard…
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Your No One is My Everyone: Some Thoughts on Publishing and the Sage Advice of Businessmen
YOUR NO ONE IS MY EVERYONE Thoughts on the scale of regional publishing and the sage advice of businessmen Originally published on University Press of Mississippi’s blog as part of University Press Week 2013 The first time I fully realized the value of what I do for a living, I was stricken with the stomach…
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Where does Ozarks Literature begin?
I’m humbled, really quite floored in that tomorrow at 11 a.m. I will stand in Strong Hall on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield before students in a university course entitled Ozarks Literature and History, and taught by Dr. Brooks Blevins. Thirty students have just finished reading my novel, Morkan’s Quarry. While not…
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Arkansas Literary Festival
Arkansas Literary Festival from Steven B Yates on Vimeo. It was an honor to take Morkan’s Quarry (Moon City Press 2010) back to Arkansas and talk about it at the Arkansas Literary Festival. As I say in the vimeo here, Arkansas gave Tammy and me eight of the best years of our lives, at the…
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The Uses, Misuses, and Boundaries of History in Fiction about Missouri’s Civil War
[March 22, 2013, I’ll be on a panel at the Missouri Conference on History in Cape Girardeau put on by the State Historical Society of Missouri. A double honor, in that all through graduate school and my stint at University of Arkansas Press I was a subscriber and devoted reader of the Missouri Historical Review,…
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